Schubert 1828
Quarterly Critics' Choice 1.2019 - German Record Critics' Award. The Naked Truth: Alexander Lonquich emphasises in his booklet text the "emphatically narrative character" of Schubert's last three sonatas. Yet he examines their structural complexity with Beethovenian rigour and a "naked" clarity and stringency, following the compositional process, rendering them a manifesto of visionary modernity. His fascinating attack, his perfect, flexible timing, a smooth pithiness and the dramatically sharpened narrative stream reveal the deep comfort- and hopelessness of these works with open vulnerability, and decisively refuse any trace of false sentimentality. This makes it captivating and shocking at the same time. (For the jury: Attila Csampai)
©℗ 2017 Alexander Lonquich